02-06-1984: Larry "Bud" opens the show from St. Thomas to kick off the beginning of Virgin Islands Week. The Museum of the Hard to Believe features a bowl of the rudest cereal in the world: "Snap, Crackle, and F--- you!"
02-06-1986: Paul introduces guest-musician David Sanborn, calling him "Solid Johnson." Two months later, an edict is handed down to the show from high above, prohibiting the word "Johnson" from ever being said on the air again.
02-06-1990: Shawn Colvin makes her network television debut, performing "Steady On." Also, fans from Lebanon, Pennsylvania send Dave a 40-inch bologna, thus ensuring their town as the next Top Ten Home Office.
02-06-1990: Top Ten Fun Things About Being Mikhail Gorbachev - 4. Counter guys at Moscow McDonalds usually slip in a couple of extra McNuggets.
02-06-1991: Top Ten Signs the Iraqi Military Is Cracking - 9. Patriotic messages on Baghdad radio replaced with 12-in-a-row from Motley Crue. 2. Thousands of applications from Iraq flooding New York City Taxi Commission.
02-06-1992: Late Night celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a 90-minute prime-time broadcast from Radio City Music Hall. Bob Dylan performs "Like a Rolling Stone," backed by Emmylou Harris, Michelle Shocked, Rosanne Cash, Nanci Griffith, Mavis Staple, Carole King, and Chrissie Hynde.
02-06-1995: There's snow outside, and that means only one thing: snowballs! Tonight, Dave aims his missles at stagehand Corky, drummer Anton, and a camera.
02-06-1995: Top Ten Signs That It's Too Damn Cold: 2. Instead of the finger, New Yorkers giving each other the mitten.
02-06-1996: "Winter Products" with Tony Randall include L.L. Bean Flannel Condoms, an Earmuff Toupee, and Self-Defrosting Eyeglasses.
02-06-1996: Fake Dole campaign ad emphasizes his age ("friend to man, friend to dinosaurs"). Also, Top Ten Reasons Liz Taylor is Divorcing Larry Fortensky.
02-06-1996: From New York, the city that never sleeps, shaves, or bathes.... Dave does some weird "Wa"/"Wahoo" bit.
02-06-1997: Guest Lance Alstodt, who kicked a $1 million field goal at the Pro Bowl, barely misses a 35 yard FG on the show.
02-06-1997: Know Your Current Events: Dave promises an audience participant named Brian (who Dave keeps calling "Larry") that if he can kick a field goal outside, he can sit onstage. Brian hits the field-goal post at 20 yards and wins his onstage seat.
02-06-1997: Robert Palmer sits in with the band. Also, there's a fake volcano on Dave's desk.
02-06-1997: Top Ten Signs Your Golf Partner Is a Killer - 8. Claims his ball was planted in the sand trap by Mark Fuhrman.
02-06-1998: "Dave Talks To Olympic Hopeful Kids" bit.
02-06-1998: It's the opening of the Winter Olympics, so Dave announces miniature Ski-Jumping Dogs in the backdrop. Live via satellite, Dave chats with his mom in Nagano, Japan.
02-06-1998: The show starts 15 minutes late due to the Olympics (in the Bay Area, anyway). Dave and Paul are the first (and the last?) to wish you "Happy Olympics".
02-06-1998: Top Ten Signs You're Not Going to Win a Gold Medal - 3. Before your event you stay at a Karaoke bar till 4 AM singing "Afternoon Delight."
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